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A monocle.
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(retronym) A monocular telescope, as opposed to binoculars.
adjective
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Having one eye.
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Related to a monocle.
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Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.
Examples of monocular in a Sentence
Some are binocular and some are just monocular.
Anything you see can become a superb photomicrograph by aligning your camera to capture the image coming out of the monocular microscope's eyepiece.
Unless it is treated successfully in early childhood, amblyopia usually persists into adulthood and is the most frequent cause of monocular (one eye) visual impairment among children.
This approach should also be adopted for the experienced operator who becomes monocular, after allowing a period of adaptation.
With my monocular microscope I got 40 reticule lines to 1 millimeter.
Don't try anything too complex since the night vision is monocular (right eye).
Patching is also not done for patients who are monocular (have one good eye), if the better eye has the abrasion, nor for patients for whom depth perception is important, as this is lost when only one eye is used.
It is supposed that the latter serves monocular, the other the binocular vision, most birds being able to converge their eyes upon one spot.
If it is desired to use the instrument as a monocular, the setting with the prism at the lower end of the tube is taken away.